R.J. Ruud

Hiking in the morning and rafting in the afternoon: I could not have imagined a better way to spend my last sunny Colorado spring Sunday of the year. We put in on Clear Creek west of Idaho Springs. The river was raging — highest it’s been in years. The water was ice cold. We were barely into the first rapids when our guide was catapulted from the back of the raft all the way to the front. Not long